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Jan 23 '12
Reveille on a Winter Morning Looking outside this morning, with the fog rising from the snow, I was reminded of this painting by H. Bacon.  This is one of my favorites, and evokes many cold mornings reenacting, and waking up for morning roll call. This painting is also described as “a scene of the 13th Reg’t. Massachusetts Infantry”; oil on canvas, c. 1865.  Corporal Henry Bacon, (1839-1912)  belonged to Company D of the 13th Mass.  He was a war correspondent for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly and his sketch of the fight at Dam No. 5 was published in that newspaper in December, 1861.  He would also sketch scenes in camp on some of the soldiers’ letters home.  Bacon, as described by his friend drummer Sam Webster, was “the artist with black curly hair and handsome eyes that lots of girls are falling in love with.”  Bacon was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run and subsequently received an honorable discharge from the military on December 19, 1862.  In 1866 he traveled to Europe to study painting.  He became quite accomplished there, and spent his later years travelling the Nile River Valley in Egypt with his 2nd wife, painting watercolor desert scenes of bedouins and caravans.

Reveille on a Winter Morning

Looking outside this morning, with the fog rising from the snow, I was reminded of this painting by H. Bacon.  This is one of my favorites, and evokes many cold mornings reenacting, and waking up for morning roll call.

This painting is also described as “a scene of the 13th Reg’t. Massachusetts Infantry”; oil on canvas, c. 1865. 

Corporal Henry Bacon, (1839-1912)  belonged to Company D of the 13th Mass.  He was a war correspondent for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly and his sketch of the fight at Dam No. 5 was published in that newspaper in December, 1861.  He would also sketch scenes in camp on some of the soldiers’ letters home.  Bacon, as described by his friend drummer Sam Webster, was “the artist with black curly hair and handsome eyes that lots of girls are falling in love with.”  Bacon was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run and subsequently received an honorable discharge from the military on December 19, 1862.  In 1866 he traveled to Europe to study painting.  He became quite accomplished there, and spent his later years travelling the Nile River Valley in Egypt with his 2nd wife, painting watercolor desert scenes of bedouins and caravans.

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